You could say some choice four letter words. There sure are a lot of them, and some of them are very versatile ! You could make up your own or delve into historical language and dredge up any number of fantastic phrases. Perhaps this very blog is even cursed given the amount of our output lately, and our lack of meeting our general commitments to it. (To be fair, 2026 seems to have been a particularly cursed yea r for everyone... NSD included.) Or you could cast a spell. Bestow Curse in Dungeons &Dragons 5th edition could give different effects of your choosing, and is available as a third level spell to Bards and Clerics, and with Wizards starting at level five. And, of course, one could always come across a cursed item or two, but that isn’t what we’re talking about this time. Rahter, we’re bringing up Bestow Curse for yet another edition of Andy Being Super Cranky About Content Creators Intentionally Misusing Spells and Misinterpreting Rules. Yes, that means it is time for y...
The 1985 Atari game Paperboy may be one of the first electronic games where you could work the same kind of job you might in real life so that you could afford to play, rent, or own the video game version - notwithstanding more adult occupations like bartender or tiny burger chef , which might have higher pay, but offer less free time due to the workplace realities of angry bar patrons and occasional pursuit by giant sausages. It's a precursor to the modern era, where we have dozens of games that focus entirely on things like mowing lawns or power washing - also the kinds of jobs (state law permitting) young folk might use to afford their hobbies ... or, these days, maybe just to barely survive. Newspapers themselves are fading into memory, and, with them, the paperboy job itself. The occupation may be all but dead, but delivery missions remain a staple of gaming . So, what exactly was Paperboy ? Unlike lot of other titles of its era, it hasn't received numerous rounds of rem...